Wordgrove Post & Review

Voices from the past join one another, share space and take issue with each other in provocative new ways. Wordgrove’s Post & Review uses quotes.

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THIS EDITION: secret

Quoted In The Grove:
All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That’s in the nature of secrets.
~Cory Doctorow

Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.
~Mary Alice Monroe

Our secrets are the walls that separate us and the bridges that connect us with others and who we truly are.
~Frank Warren

EndQuote:
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
~Edgar Watson Howe

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Returning from Colombia to Oregon: With all the disconnects that relocating involves, there will be a delay in getting out the next edition.

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Next Exercise Prompt: mind

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In the bottom of my heart lies a secret which I have never told a soul in the world. There is an image of this person who is dearest to me and closer than anything else.
~Avril Lavigne

There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul,
where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.
~Alphonse De Lamartine

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A secret love is beautiful, sweet and sacred when it’s just a light infatuation; but when that person reaches over and touches you in the heart, making it alive in a way it has never known, that secret love becomes frightening, because you can never make them love you, you would never want to make them love you… no matter which way you view it, they don’t love you…and your heart doesn’t know how to beat the same.
~Stefanie Schneider

We’ve all at some point in our life encountered that feeling of secretly liking someone, secretly having your eyes on them, secretly wishing they knew, but deep inside you were afraid of what the outcome would be. So you kept it unnoticed. Kept it hidden…
~Telisa McLaughlin

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I pretend to look around, but I was actually looking at you.
~author unknown

He wanted her. She’d never tell.
Secretly she wanted him as well.
~Avril Lavigne

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
~Federico Garcia Lorca

Love should never be a secret. If you keep something as complicated as love stored up inside, it could make you sick.
~Stan Lee

The extreme form of passionate love is secret love.
~Japanese Proverb

Some of us will never know we’d owned someone’s heart for a season.
~Joyce Rachelle

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Some relationships hurt but secret relationships hurt more than that where you don’t confess even to yourself that you’re in a relationship.
~Gaurav S Kaintura

I had deluded myself throughout by the idea of reviving a secret love which did not exist at all.
~Iris Murdoch

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Love is the instrument to unfold divine secrets…
Love is the reign timeless, dimensionless…
Lover is as distinct as the moon shining among stars on the sky.
~Kürsat Kizbaz

There’s so little love in the world, Julie. When it’s kept a secret, it’s wasted.
~Eleanor Perry

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Posted From The Grove

You have a magnificent chance, dear boy, with all the advantages of wealth and station. I beseech you not to throw it away by any exhibition of talent… Be careful that your metaphors show no imagination and conceal your brains as you would a discreditable secret. Above all, if you have a sense of humour, crush it. Crush it.
~W Somerset Maugham (on going into politics)

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The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper.
~Thomas Powers

The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets.
~Whitfield Diffie

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Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.
~Franny Billingsley

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
~Samuel Johnson

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn’t one.
~Margaret Atwood

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Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
~Robin Morgan

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
~Maximilien Robespierre

We don’t have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.
~Alan Dershowitz

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
~Thomas Jefferson

Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
~Louis D Brandeis

The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.
~Thucydides

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
~Tony Blair

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
~William Hazlitt

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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
~John Maynard Keynes

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
~Jeremy Bentham

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Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
~Elihu Root

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often time we call a man cold when he is only sad… If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.
~Aldrich Ames

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
~Johann Kaspar Lavater

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
~Elizabeth I

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I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.
~Chief Joseph

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.
~Golda Meir

You might hold an ethical position that it’s wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons – to reduce casualties, perhaps – and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a ‘good’ outcome.
~Peter Singer

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Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson’s administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s brilliant ‘whiz kids’ tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
~Thomas Sowell

War’s dirty little secret is that some men love it.
~Kathryn Bigelow

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Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
~Sun Tzu

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.
~Charles Caleb Colton

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Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
~Julian Assange

The secret is this, once you begin to take action, you’ll usually take more action then you had originally planned.
~James A Murphy

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To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
~Cornelia Otis Skinner

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
~Hillary Clinton

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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
~Don DeLillo

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
~Dean Acheson

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can’t control.
~Michael Bloomberg

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I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.
~Jesse Jackson

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
~John le Carre

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Let judges secretly despair of justice:
their verdicts will be more acute.
Let generals secretly despair of triumph;
killing will be defamed.
Let priests secretly despair of faith:
their compassion will be true.
~Leonard Cohen

The secret we should never let the game masters know is that they don’t need any rules.
~Gary Gygax

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For every secret hangs in greater fear between the speaker’s mouth and hearer’s ear than any peril between cup and lip.
~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.
~Max Brooks

Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men ‒particularly if they are married ‒ knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind
~Oswald Mosley

Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
~Benjamin Franklin

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Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can’t find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.
~Lauren Graham

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn’t suffer fools – a striving politician who considers himself above politics.
~Ron Fournier

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.
~Hillary Clinton

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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
~Goethe

Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.
~Cicero

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The secret of concentration is the secret of self discovery.
~Arnold Palmer

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
~Andrew Carnegie

Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.
~Christopher Dodd

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~Underwater Movie Challenge: Top Secret (1:33) think up something crazy, ‘n some fool idjits’ll try’n make it happen

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~Andrenus Craton: The Secret… (0:59) quite simple, really

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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
~Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is sincerity.
~Jean Giraudoux

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
~Henry Ford

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
~Tom Peters

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
~Benjamin Disraeli

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Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
~Richard Bach

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.
~Tony Robbins

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
~Swami Sivananda

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
~Nadia Comaneci

You’ve got to work hard for your success and you’ve got to have a steady presence. That’s the secret.
~Kid Rock

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
~Louis Pasteur

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
~Benjamin Disraeli

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
~Aristotle Onassis

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
~Colin Powell

There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?
~Kin Hubbard

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You’ve got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world’s most powerful – and neglected – secret to success and happiness.
~Percy Ross

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
~Henry Ford

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.
~Harvey S Firestone

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
~Bertrand Russell

The secret to happiness in your work is to find a job in which your neurosis is constructive.
~Jeanne LaMont

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
~Buddha

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
~Cyril Connolly

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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
~J Donald Walters

…the true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life, in elevating them by art instead of handing the performance of them over to unregarded drudges, and ignoring them…
~William Morris

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
~Leo Buscaglia

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
~Roald Dahl

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The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
~David Ogilvy

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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
~George Bernard Shaw

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I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
~Pablo Neruda

Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.
~Gregory David Roberts

Secrets are dark things. They don’t exist in the light. They glow faintly in forgotten corners, in mysterious mind nooks, in lost memory maps. Secrets are the shadows of the soul.
~Sukanya Venkatraghavan

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As the warm glow flickers from jack-o-lanterns, dark secrets are brought to light. Terrifying creatures rule the night and strike fear into eager souls who relish the unknown.
~James E Garvey

I grew up in the ’80s where there’s a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you’re not supposed to.
~Gillian Flynn

I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend’s house and staying up late and watching ‘Nosferatu.’ Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.
~Ethan Hawke

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I don’t know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It’s more than talent and beauty. Maybe it’s the audience seeing itself in you.
~Joan Blondell

The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.
~George Lucas

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I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It’s those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.
~Jane Campion

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
~Tony Dungy

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton’s ability to achieve team synergy.
~Michael Bergdahl

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation’s conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.
~James MacGregor Burns

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
~James Humes

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My mom’s collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I’m not just saying that because she’s my mom. She’s got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.
~Santigold

When I tour, it’s like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I’m obsessed with – one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing.
~Aziz Ansari

The secret of food lies in memory – of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.
~Jerry Saltz

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You can’t prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell – although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I’d say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn’t really looked at either painter’s work. Taste is a blood sport.
~Jerry Saltz

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~Omeleto: The Secret Market (22:27) well-crafted exploration, the price of…

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~Dust: Laboratory Conditions (17:01) secret of life after death, w/ Marisa Tomei & Minnie Driver

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~Omeleto: A Secret Journey (17:09) and yet, life is sacred

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~Rob Carter: The Raisin (9:16) a most improbable parable, unsure the lesson, just because

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~Omeleto: Keepsake (14:26) stories grim & grimmer and their resolution

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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
~Goethe

In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. I can imagine no more fascinating privilege than to be allowed to ransack the desks of a thousand American business men, men supposed to be hard-headed, absorbed in brisk commerce. Somewhere in each desk one would find some hidden betrayal of that man’s private worship.
~Christopher Morley

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Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
~Christian Dior

My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.
~Vivienne Westwood

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or ‘What size do you wear?’ or ‘Who’s your couturier?’ They ask me about really deep things and I love that.
~Shirley MacLaine

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Don’t despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
~Ben Okri

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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

My mom’s a secret Rastafarian.
~Jenna Bush

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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
~Elbert Hubbard

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.
~Lauren Oliver

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
~Jeremy Taylor

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§ MUSIC:
I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.
~Francesca Lia Block

There are people hell-bent on the idea that we’re a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It’s simply about life experience.
~Amy Lee (Evanescence)

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The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one’s eyes.
~George Sand

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
~Walt Whitman

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
~L Wolfe Gilbert

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.
~Chuck Tanner

Patience is the secret to good food.
~Gail Simmons

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It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one’s uses.
~Sarah Orne Jewett

I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. …The secret of happiness is something to do.
~John Burroughs

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
~Thomas Jefferson

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~Leonard Cohen: IN MY SECRET LIFE

~himself: (4:08) visually cryptic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW7oNpzBSGc

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~KateCat 2: Till Bronner & Carla Bruni (5:37) languorous, takes her time, lingers with the lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAD1QTbfUW8

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~Brian W Foster: (6:14) loss unfolds w/ visual storyline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBvAcKYc0o

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~Death of a Ladies’ Man Sessions: with Leif Vollebekk (5:41) idiosyncratic, you will or you won’t
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri5Nakbjr2U

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~MichaelKingShow: Johnny Rivers • Secret Agent Man (3:27) w/ Rowan Atkinson providing comic relief

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~Moelia Comesana: Peter Gabriel • Secret World (10:29) in concert

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~Carly Simon: We Have No Secrets (4:28) w/ Harry Connick Jr

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~Roxette: Secrets That She Keeps (3:24) lip-sync, teeny-bop posturing, still…

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~Faith Hill: The Secret of Life (4:23) she gives away a few

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~VJ: Bruce Springsteen • Secret Garden (4:25) Jerry Maguire soundtrack, visual recap

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~Mary Lambert: Secrets (3:53) you may know, but she don’t care

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~Ron Elliott: Secret Crush (4:16) twisty tale of love and secrets with a rare happy ending

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~Gwirithdess: Little Secret (1:28) the future pending telegraphing sadness

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~OneRepublic: Secrets (3:52) nicely done, but all the stories about secrets and love seem to end in sadness

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~OneRepublic: The Piano Guys Secrets (5:07) orchestral version, music without story or tears

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~Michal Blaszczyk: Secret (2:04) understated, ghostly, scrolling despair

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~Endeavor Media Group: Secret & Whisper XOXOXOX (3:26) energetic rock ‘n roll

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Better to live with the guilty secret than the open truth of their life together ‒ that they were bound by the habit of illicit lust, mutual degradation.
~Fay Weldon

Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.
~Laura Esquivel

My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there’s not build up. I think that’s probably the best way to do it.
~Guy Fieri

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Some men consider their wives nobody; when a secret is confided to them, with the injunction to tell nobody, of course they tell their wives only.
~James Lendall Basford

Never tell a secret to a bride or groom; wait until they have been married longer.
~E W Howe

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We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us.
~Jean De La Bruyere

I didn’t think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable – that it was something they just put up with for their children.
~Salma Hayek

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
~Henny Youngman

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The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.
~Julia Child

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
~V S Pritchett

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
~Harold Nicolson

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
~Sacha Guitry

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Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That’s how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.
~Mitt Romney

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Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
~Aphra Behn

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.
~Robert Brault

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Your secret love
Why can’t we tell somebody
‘Cause secret loves
Never last as long
~Luther Ronzoni Vandross

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…we long so desperately for their touch, even just brief, we could almost bleed we long for it so. And when they find a lover, we feel like a shadow, longing to be seen as real, until we finally learn we have nothing more to do than to fade away from their light.
~Stephanie Schneider

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
~Carl Sandburg

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Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
~Emile M Cioran

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
~Aphra Behn

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It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.
~Charlotte Bronte

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A woman can keep one secret ‒ the secret of her age.
~Voltaire

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
~Arthur Conan Doyle

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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
~Zoe Saldana

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For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.
~Madeleine Albright

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.
~Madeleine Albright

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How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It’s what men have kept secret for so long.
~Steve Harvey

When I joined Bill Clinton’s start-up presidential campaign… I never gave a minute’s thought to what would happen if we won. When we did – and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary – it changed my life. But it didn’t change the world.
~Dee Dee Myers

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.
~Wilma Mankiller

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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
~Walter Bagehot

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
~Mark Twain

I don’t think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it’s no longer a secret.
~Jim Coleman

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy – the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
~David Copperfield

Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.
~Jim Crace

There are secrets I would not reveal under torture. I mean, there would have to be a silence at a cocktail party, or you would have to be sitting next to me in tourist class.
~Robert Brault

SECRETS are a burden. That’s the reason we are so anxious to have somebody to help us carry them.
~Josh Billings

A SECRET is like an aching tooth — keeps you uneasy till it’s out.
~Josh Billings

DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life… The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude… According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.
~Ambrose Bierce

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The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
~Howard Nemerov

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
~Henny Youngman

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
~Jilly Cooper

The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
~Colin Chapman

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
~Mark Twain

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
~Groucho Marx

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
~Lucille Ball

The secret to humor is surprise.
~Aristotle

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.
~Joe Biden

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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in art.
~Tweed Conrad

The secret to life is balance in all things.
~James A Murphy

Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a man has of encouragement and sympathy and understanding.
~John D Rockefeller

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The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
~Tweed Conrad

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
~Voltaire

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I think it’s useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are – because otherwise I’d be sitting here thinking I’m keeping secrets, and wondering when you’re going to find out.
~Daniel Radcliffe

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
~Georg Simmel

The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people’s secret virtues, but only about their secret vices.
~Bertrand Russell

The best way to find a person’s dark secrets is to praise them to their friends.
~Tony Crossley

Secrets tend to get revealed when you’re feeling most loved and when you’re feeling most betrayed.
~author unknown

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
~Kate Chopin

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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
~Henri Frederic Amiel

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Secrets are a part of life. Their mysteries make our world beautiful. Their depths inspire our hearts, intrigue our minds, and embrace our very souls.
~Imania Margria

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
~Thomas Carlyle

I think I’ve discovered the secret of life ‒ you just hang around until you get used to it.
~Charles M Schulz

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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
~W Somerset Maugham

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@Writers Platform

As there are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write, so the heart is a secret even to him (or her) who has it in his own breast.
~William Makepeace Thackeray

Daddy, tell me your best secret.
(I have woven a parachute out of everything broken;
my scars are my shield;
and I jump, daylight or dark, into any country,
where as I descend I turn native and stumble
into terribly human speech and wince recognition.)
~William Stafford

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Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch’s brew.
~Anthony Hecht

It’s part of a writer’s profession, as it’s part of a spy’s profession, to prey on the community to which he’s attached, to take away information – often in secret – and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it’s his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.
~John le Carre

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
~Paul Tournier

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
~Tom Stoppard

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.
~Juan Goytisolo

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
~Nicolas Chamfort

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Alex grew up in Hampshire with her head in the clouds and her nose in a book, secretly hoping to find Narnia every time she opened a wardrobe.
~Alex English

It’s a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
~Annie Dillard

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Ooh, it’s too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets – although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.
~Gary Lineker

I don’t hate humanity and I’m not interested in people who do. Although, it’s funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. ‘London Fields’ is one of my favorite books ever. And it’s indefensible! But he’s so funny… I forgive him everything.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

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The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.
~Shirley Knight

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
~Virginia Woolf

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
~Maya Angelou

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
~Virginia Woolf

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The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
~Henry James

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If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.
~Maurice Sendak

I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone’s going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down… Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.
~Garrett Hedlund

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§ The Glass Table:

Love, Unforgiving (an excerpt)
Some days I wake up confident; a crack of a smile resting unnoticed on my face. I go about my day without noticing I have yet to have a single thought about…you. Thank god. If I’d have stayed with you a moment longer, I would have crashed and burned. …But only loneliness is present to haunt my [winter] days while the sting of each shallow inhale reminds me, I suffer therefore I live-
~AidenScott:

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§ Guest Quotes:
There are worse things than a broken heart.
Like the love that you don’t explore.
~Dawson’S Creek

If you love someone, tell them. For hearts are often broken by words left unspoken.
~Stephanie Roogle

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~Charles Swindoll: Attitude (exerpt)
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company…a church…a home.

We cannot change our past… we cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
~Christone @Wordgrove Ataraxia, contributing

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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
~Irving Berlin

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We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.
~David Suzuki

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half used minds; for it is the mind that makes the body: that is my secret, and the secret of all true healers.
~Bernard Shaw

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.
~Deepak Chopra

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
~Lewis Thomas

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient’s hopes are the physician’s secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
~Norman Cousins

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My two secrets to staying healthy: wash your hands all the time. …And the other is hot peppers. I eat a lot of hot peppers. I for some reason started doing that in 1992, and I swear by it.
~Hillary Clinton

Our secrets are what keep us sick and as soon as we are able to expose them to another person, that is when the healing begins.
~Phillip L Smith

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I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher – all in high school.
~Jennie Garth

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
~Ella Maillart

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.
~Jane Goodall

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.
~David Brainerd

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The American education system couldn’t be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
~Dennis Miller

Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, It’s a secret between he and I. Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don’t know.
~J D Salinger

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§ The Exercise:

Today Only Always

Nerves
Talk too loud
— too fast
— say the wrong thing
— can’t think of a word

Words
Catch in the throat
— a useful sort of silence
— interrupted delivery
— unparalleled success

Overstock
Store shelves
— fence-mending tools
— new self-respect
— perfect advice: STFU

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unwritten story

camouflaged path
mined with distractions
hidden entrance
padlocked door
private garden
arcane texts
obscure truths
shrouded secrets
cryptic warnings
mystic patterns
veiled instructions
forgotten language
mistranslated
consequences
following
News at 10

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5s ‘n 7s

steps become miles became years
one love stayed the other strayed
shock of pain unwelcome tears
wending home by winding way
displaced, disgraced openly
who locked that door tossed the key
died inside repeatedly

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silent departure
the quiet exit
despair the reason
life unbearable
nowhere left to turn
no point in secrets
we’re going on strike

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treetop perspective sees things
seasoned world its work to read
roots have secrets dark as gold
mire of treasure and compost
sky buried, interred in earth

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vexed generations
left to wallow in a world
slimed by the boomers
who fashioned their happiness
trading the future for Now

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secrets of the skin
encased universe within
pleasure having been
invited back in again
realm of life and school of sin

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age old recipe
family secret for years
get drunk and forget

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secret happy war
to be loved or forgotten
wedded bliss or free

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secret strain of seeds
airborne germs fleshed ideas
call it the podcast

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
~Henry Timrod

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
~Alfred North Whitehead

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A great many men’s gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Secrets are pleasant to each child of Eve.
~Hannah Cowley

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One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.
~Herbert Simon

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
~Bertrand Russell

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A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there’s a secret.
~Jean Ferris

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Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
~Leo Burnett

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
~Josef Albers

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
~Doris Lessing

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
~Aldous Huxley

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Buried deep beneath the surface of his character, was a hidden, yet a restless ambition: but this was perhaps, at present, a secret even to himself. We know not our own characters till time teaches us self-knowledge…
~Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

I’m not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I’m not looking for the secret to life… I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
~Frank Sinatra

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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
~Horace Walpole

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
~Bryant H. McGill

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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
~Wilma Rudolph

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.
~George Lucas

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Our love is like the wind. I can’t see it, but I can feel it.
~Nicholas Sparks

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
~Rumi

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The Olio
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Fun Tarts: https://gocomics.com

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The Salmagundi
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